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New That is because it is cheaper to make a software modem
They can sell an Internal software modem for $20USD and have software do some things that the more expensive hardware can do. My favorite software modem is the Lucent Winmodem.

But hardware modems can be expensive, I wonder why the price of them haven't gone down? Perhaps because hardly anyone buys them anymore? Or that new systems are usually built with software modems these days?

Picking up the pieces of my broken life.
New Exactly.
In fact, the cost of hardware modems have actually increased - mainly because the economies of scale are no longer there. They are availible, but at a premium only. Software modems are cheap because they a) use much fewer components and b) are being manufactured in much larger quantities.

Just supply 'n demand, baby...
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
     Old fashioned hardware modems are disappearing - (tonytib) - (5)
         Some are still around. - (Andrew Grygus)
         That's enough lights. - (static) - (1)
             For PCs, perhaps . . . - (Andrew Grygus)
         That is because it is cheaper to make a software modem - (orion) - (1)
             Exactly. - (inthane-chan)

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